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• Announcing Vitess 23 (Planetscale)
  We’re excited to release Vitess 23.0.0 — the latest major version of Vitess — bringing new defaults, better operational tooling, and refine…
• What is HTAP? (Planetscale)
  Learn what HTAP is, how HTAP compares to OLAP and OLTP, and some pros and cons of HTAP.
• Announcing the Fivetran integration (Planetscale)
  You can now extract data from Planet Scale and use it as a data source in your extract, load, and transform (ELT) processes with Fivetran.
• Report on our investigation of the 2025-10-20 incident in AWS us-east-1 — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  On 2025-10-20, there was an incident that affected PlanetScale, initially caused by DNS misconfiguration in one of PlanetScale’s service pr…
• The State of Online Schema Migrations in MySQL (Planetscale)
  How do you run non-blocking schema changes in MySQL? With a plethora of 3 rd party solutions and with recent advancements in MySQL, it's di…
• How PlanetScale unlocks developer productivity (Planetscale)
  A guide on what slows developers down, why it matters, and how a better database can unlock developer productivity.
• Announcing PlanetScale: The database for developers. (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale is the first database designed for developer workflows on top of the technology of the hyperscalers.
• One Postgres cluster, many apps — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  Yo, I heard you liked databases, so we put logical databases in your database cluster so you can database while you database The goal Say w…
• Connection pooling in Vitess (Planetscale)
  Connection pooling reduces the overhead of establishing new database connections. Learn how connection pooling works and how it is handled…
• When the Postgres query planner goes rogue (Planetscale)
  How PlanetScale Database Traffic Control contained a runaway Postgres query after the planner abandoned an index.
• Deploy requests now alert on potential unwanted changes (Planetscale)
  We’d like to share a little detail we just shipped to the Deploy Request UI. We now show you if your schema change could result in the loss…
• The promises and realities of the relational database model (Planetscale)
  The relational model is one of the oldest surviving models in computer science but it has some drawbacks that need to be addressed.
• Optimizing query planning in Vitess: a step-by-step approach (Planetscale)
  See how Vitess acts as a database proxy that creates an illusion of a single database when technically, the query is sent to multiple MySQL…
• The principles of extreme fault tolerance (Planetscale)
  The principles and processes we follow for fault tolerance.
• Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ (Planetscale)
  The SQL evaluation engine that ships with Vitess, the open-source database that powers Planet Scale, was originally implemented as an AST e…
• Behind the scenes: How schema reverts work (Planetscale)
  Learn how we used VReplication to allow for migration reverts with data retention.
• How we made PlanetScale’s background jobs self-healing (Planetscale)
  How to build self-healing background jobs into your application with background queueing systems like Sidekiq.
• One million connections (Planetscale)
  Learn how to use PlanetScale to safely include your database in your serverless functions without hitting connection limits in MySQL.
• Announcing Vitess 22 (Planetscale)
  The Vitess maintainers are happy to announce the release of version 22.0.0, along with version 2.15.0 of the Vitess Kubernetes Operator.
• $50 PlanetScale Metal is GA for Postgres — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  We've lowered the entry price for using PlanetScale Metal to $50 and added more flexibility in storage-to-compute ratios.
• Postgres High Availability with CDC (Planetscale)
  Why a lagging client can stall or break failover, and how MySQL’s GTID model avoids it.
• Defining the database maturity model (Planetscale)
  Database issues experts have faced at companies like GitHub, DigitalOcean, and Etsy and define the stages of database growth that you shoul…
• Incorporating databases into your CI/CD pipeline (Planetscale)
  In this tech talk, we demo how to build your own CI/CD pipelines, where to incorporate the database, and why the database has historically…
• Rails’ safety mechanisms (Planetscale)
  A comprehensive overview of Rails’ many safety features that can help you prevent painful mistakes.
• TAOBench: Running social media workloads on PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  As Planet Scale expands its customer base, our Tech Solutions team often gets to collaborate with companies trying to evaluate whether Plan…
• Is your database bleeding money? (Planetscale)
  Databases can cost your company millions if they don’t function as they should. What are the biggest pitfalls, and how can you avoid them?
• Introducing sharding on PlanetScale with workflows (Planetscale)
  Run Vitess workflows right from within PlanetScale. Migrate data from unsharded to sharded keyspaces, manage traffic cutover, and easily re…
• PlanetScale joins AWS ISV Accelerate (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale has deepened its relationship with AWS to benefit customers who use AWS services, officially joining the AWS ISV Accelerate Pro…
• How PlanetScale keeps your data safe (Planetscale)
  A detailed description of the multi-layered approach PlanetScale takes to ensure your data is safe.
• What is a query planner? (Planetscale)
  Learn how query planning works and why query planners are important.
• Databases at scale (Planetscale)
  Learn about the three main aspects of database scaling: storage, compute, and network.
• Backward compatible database changes (Planetscale)
  Learn about safely using the expand, migrate, and contract pattern to make database schema changes without downtime and data loss.
• We now display PlanetScale system status directly in your dashboard (Planetscale)
  For most of our customers, their database is the most critical piece of their infrastructure.
• Graceful degradation in Postgres (Planetscale)
  Not all traffic is created equal.When a database is overwhelmed, you want the important queries to keep executing, even if that means shedd…
• MySQL isolation levels and how they work (Planetscale)
  Learn about the various isolation levels used by MySQL to allow concurrency in your database.
• What is Vitess: resiliency, scalability, and performance (Planetscale)
  Learn what Vitess is, how it works, and how it can improve your database‘s resilience, scalability, and performance.
• Anatomy of a Throttler, part 3 (Planetscale)
  This is the last installment of a three-part blog series. If you missed the previous articles, you can catch up by reading part one and par…
• PlanetScale and HIPAA (Planetscale)
  PlanetScale can now enter into Business Associate Agreements (BAA) with customers on an Enterprise plan.
• Poisoned Postgres connection pools (Planetscale)
  An engineer's worst nightmare is waking up to a seemingly read-only database with no clear issue in sight.
• Introducing the PlanetScale MCP server (Planetscale)
  Connect Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools directly to your PlanetScale database to optimize schemas, debug queries, and monitor app perfor…
• Sam Lambert appointed new CEO of PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  It is with great pleasure that I announce that I have made the decision to transition the role of Chief Executive Officer of Planet Scale t…
• Approaches to tenancy in Postgres (Planetscale)
  There are many ways to slice a Postgres database for multi-tenant applications.
• PlanetScale vectors is now GA (Planetscale)
  You can now use vector search and storage in your PlanetScale MySQL database.
• NoneSQL All the DevEx (Planetscale)
  Databases will win based on superior developer experience not what is under the hood.
• Anatomy of a (Postgres) search engine (Planetscale)
  Databases use indexes to make queries fast. Rather than check every row in a table for a matching value, look up that value in an index and…
• Introducing schema recommendations — PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  Automatically receive recommendations to improve database performance, reduce memory and storage, and improve your schema based on producti…
• Instant deploy requests (Planetscale)
  Where eligible, you can run deploy requests that complete near-instantly.
• Database Sharding (Planetscale)
  Learn about the database sharding scaling pattern in this interactive blog.
• Benchmarking Postgres (Planetscale)
  Benchmarking Postgres in a transparent, standardized and fair way is challenging.
• Building a multi-region Rails application with PlanetScale (Planetscale)
  Learn how to configure your database in a multi-region Rails application to decrease latency across the globe.